The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31

law live in remote part OF the county
Jesup, or thereabouts Very few arrests
are made owing TO this fact. These sharp
ers do not live at Nahunta, but come there
on pay days.
Sunday morning a male child was born to
a negro girl, by name fish Sanders, who
lives in Jonesboro, a small suburban vii
tage near Greensboro. composed of negro
shaatieS The mother, not relishing the ad-
vent OF an heir, attempted to make way
with 1t. A negro woman living ON an adj
joining lot to the one where the mother
lives, was attracted by faint cries of an in
tant. Upon investigation she found child
only a few hours old lying in a
brier patch at the rear of small
clubhouse, its body horribly. torn and
bruised, and its face and hands scratched in
various places. The mother of the child,
who cooks for white family in this place,
went to her work as usual this morning a
few hours after its birth. She had Just
finished cooking breakfast when the Mar
shall paid her visit. She returned to her
infant and acknowledged herself to be its
mother Up to this hour the child bids fair
to survive the horrible treatment Of its in
human mother.
Ellijay Courier: The registered distillery
of Martin V. Teen, of this county, on Clear
creek, was destroyed by fire last Thursday
morning. The fire was discovered by the
family, and on Fastening TO it found the
west end falling in. Nothing was saved
from the distillery. A hard fight prevented
a warehouse near by from burning, though
the fire was SO hot the rosin oozed out of the
door and misunderstanding, and only the
constant application of water prevented its
destruction. Had the fire caught this house
and mill near by. he would have sustained
loss of $4,000, He says it was the
work of an incendiaay. The still house
was first fired at the end
where the beer tubs stood and where the
lost part of the still was, and could have
caught only by being set ON fire. He says
he knows some of the parties who perpe-
trated the deed, and we understand he has
offered a reward of $3.50 for the apprehen-
sion of all the guilty parties Two large
stills, gaugers rod, 1900 gallons of beer,
and all the appurtenance of the distillery
were destroyed. He will rebuild on the site
OF the old one.
The Lincoln Rifles, a colored military
company of Atlanta, and several hundred
of their friends went on an excursion to
Rosedale Friday In the tournament Lieut.
Spriggs and a bright mulatto barber, of
Gainesville, named Rogers, were the rivals
for the first prize The barber won it, and
selected to crown as queen a handsome
young octoroon named Julia Milling
Spriggs was in love with the same woman,
and swore that if Rogers attempted to crown
her there would be murder done. When
the company was drawn up for the corona
ton ceremony it was noticed that Spriggs
was absent from the line. The girl came
forward 20 receive her crown dressed in
white, with her long hair streaming down
her back, and wearing a bunch of roses in
her bosom. Rogers was about to place the
crown on her head when she reeled and
fell as the sharp crack of a rife rang
through the woods. She was lying pros
trate upon the platform and blood was
oozing out of wound in her breast Just
where the bouquet of flowers had been
pinned. She uttered not one word and ex-
pired in few minutes Tho crowd was
terrified. Some of the members knew of
Spriggs' threats and at once knew he was
the murderer. They turned in the direction
of the thicket, in which he must have been
concealed, and he was seen mounted on a
white horse riding at furious speed down
the public road. IL was not many minutes
before a dozen mounted men were in hot
pursuit. They followed him for eight miles
and finally abandoned the chase This
morning several countrymen discovered a
dead white horse in the road and it was
identified as the one the fugitive murderer
had ridden. The young woman was buried
Saturday, dressed as she was when she stood
to receive the crown. The tragedy has pro-
duced great sensation among the colored
people OF Coweta county, and should
Spriggs be caught they could not be pre-
vented from lynching him.